Rapallo (on the green and Europe)

Here's why I couldn't answer you (and now I'm about to embark):

I had to prepare this speech. It's always the same things, but not at the same times and not to the same people. The result was seen, the message got across (listen to the comments of others, all of their speeches were very interesting), we are taking our voice to other environments and slowly we are building spaces for listening and reputation that will be useful to us.

See you later for comments on this and the last posts, but in the meantime I wanted to share an observation that came to mind while working on this intervention: it is strange how those who believe that the State is like a family (a colorful tribe that as we have seen also includes “visionary” billionaires) ask the State not to behave like a family behaves when it has to buy a capital asset (a car, a house)! Families (or companies) go into debt to buy machinery or buildings. According to the Janissaries, the State, on the other hand, should never go into debt, even though it is now clear that the one who is fueling a dangerous chain letter is the private sector: it is the latter that goes into debt to pay dividends, not the public sector, and the OECD says so!

This is the consistency of our social interlocutors. The flesh-and-blood ones are definitely better and fortunately more relevant. Shame on Serendippo!

This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/06/rapallo-sul-green-e-leuropa.html on Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:09:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.